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This paper studies the textual cohesive devices in the old Arabic poem entitled ‘jafā widduhū’ by the Abbasid poet Basyār bin Burd. This would be done from the perspective of text linguistics. It aims to uncover the extent of organic unity in the text as an example of the old Arabic poetry. The study uses textual method and focuses on three salient aspects of the poem namely: reference, repetition, and conjunction. The study begins with reference as it is the most stand out feature in the text and a grammatical cohesive feature. Three of its categories were explained in the poem: personal, comparative, and implicative references. Subsequently, repetition will be discussed as a lexical reference and four of its categories will be elaborated namely: total, partial, synonymous, and semi synonymous repetitions. Conjunction is also a part of lexical cohesive device and four of its relations are evident in the poem: conjunctive relation, the relation between the whole and part, the relation between the parts, and the relation between the elements of a general category. It is evident in the end that the textual cohesive devices are deployed in the poem and they are overlapping in many instances thus proving the organic unity of the poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The genres of prose have special importance, thus the research of these genres within the modern theories and approaches would open new horizons on the viewpoints of these texts. This paper examines the topic of the influence of argumentative ties on textual cohesion by directing the argumentation hierarchy, by applying the approach on an ancient Arabic text namely the Nahj al-Balāgha, specifically the examples of the letters of Imam Ali to King al-Ashtar. The research takes the argumentative approach as a method using the methods of textual linguistic studies. Among its most important observations are the results of applying the said methods in the text analysis, and that this approach would be beneficial if combined with other methods and theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]